Modern technology and private espionage.

 

When we think about private espionage as the espionage that private companies make, we can say that companies like Satlantis,  SpaceX and IceEye can be the next step for private espionage. Those companies can provide satellite and radar satellite services. That can beat the national espionage programs. 

IceEye's radar satellites show their capacity in the Ukrainian war. Those radar satellites can see Russian convoys. The Starlink system can also route all information that travels through it to its operators. The private ELINT satellite can be a reprogrammed Starlink-type communication satellite. 

Some companies provide high-resolution images from the ground. They operate highly advanced satellites. The first of those commercial high-resolution that provide quite high-resolution images was Ikonos. The Ikonos launched into space in 1999 and it retired in 2015.  The resolution of those images that this civil geo-observing satellite could provide is about 1-1,5 meters. And that was a very high-resolution system.  But its successors are more advanced. 

Today satellites are more advanced than Ikonos. Those satellites' sensors are more effective than the Ikonos ever been. Those systems can take images of about 30cm in size tells those satellite's marketing page. Things like spectroscopes can offer a view of the chemical compounds that the engine exhaust gas involves. 

When we think about free-to-use services like Google Earth. It is always mentioned. That the data that those services publish cannot harm anybody. 

Things like military bases are not updated very often. The image below is taken from Google Earth and it's from the Severomorsk area. Details are taken by zooming those Google Earth images. 

Above: Google Earth image of Severomorsk. 

That service can also provide information about the classified areas. The data is not the newest possible, but it involves interesting details. The satellites. Advanced computers, AI, and radar technology allow the creation of remotely or automatically (AI) controlled airships or stratospheric satellites that can offer very high-resolution radars, lidar, and optical images.  

Computer-based systems can connect data from satellites and stratospheric satellites. The new artificial intelligence-based solutions that can remove pixels for zoom images open new visions to private espionage. 

Private espionage is the most interesting and dangerous thing in the world. Any private investigator can buy things like drones and mobile telephones and take images of the objects. The drone can carry microphones or the private eye can use laser microphones or hack the surveillance cameras. There are also things like intelligent glasses that private espionage people can use to film offices. Then the operators can find interesting details from those films. 

They can slip mobile telephones. That are polluted with malicious software into the office. 

And that's why. Some people are worried about the free electronics. Like tablets. That the Chinese online stores offer. 

The fact is that. It's possible to slip an espionage program into those systems. And that system can act as a gate for hackers. 

https://www.freethink.com/artificial-intelligence/private-intelligence

https://www.iceye.com

https://www.worldview.space/remote-sensing

https://www.satimagingcorp.com/satellite-sensors/ikonos/

https://www.satlantis.com

https://www.starlink.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikonos 

Researchers noticed that AI has its Achilles heel.

"Researchers showed AI models can be stolen by analyzing device signals, risking intellectual property and security. Countermeasures are now needed. Credit: SciTechDaily.com" (ScitechDaily, AI’s Achilles’ Heel: Researchers Expose Major Model Security Flaw)

The AI is the computer program.  Or a very complex computer program. With multiple layers. That means if somebody attacks the AI server that hosts the large language model, LLM. That makes it possible to steal the AI. Basically, that means the hacker can download the LLM source code into that person's own server. 

Researchers from South Carolina State University. Made an Attack on the AI server. Using electromagnetic waves. That means they didn't make a straight attack against the server. That means the server's firewalls and other things are helpless against the attack. The technology that those people used based the electromagnetic waves. 

"Researchers used electromagnetic signals to steal and replicate AI models from a Google Edge TPU with 99.91% accuracy, exposing significant vulnerabilities in AI systems and calling for urgent protective measures." (ScitchDaily, AI’s Achilles’ Heel: Researchers Expose Major Model Security Flaw)

"Researchers have shown that it’s possible to steal an artificial intelligence (AI) model without directly hacking the device it runs on. This innovative technique requires no prior knowledge of the software or architecture supporting the AI, making it a significant advancement in model extraction methods." (ScitchDaily, AI’s Achilles’ Heel: Researchers Expose Major Model Security Flaw)

“AI models are valuable, we don’t want people to steal them,” says Aydin Aysu, co-author of a paper on the work and an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at North Carolina State University. “Building a model is expensive and requires significant computing sources. But just as importantly, when a model is leaked, or stolen, the model also becomes more vulnerable to attacks – because third parties can study the model and identify any weaknesses.” (ScitchDaily, AI’s Achilles’ Heel: Researchers Expose Major Model Security Flaw)

"The researchers stole the hyperparameters of an AI model that was running on a Google Edge Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)". (ScitchDaily, AI’s Achilles’ Heel: Researchers Expose Major Model Security Flaw)

So, by using this method. Researchers were able to determine the architecture and specific characteristics – known as layer details – researchers and later hackers, would need to make a copy of the AI model.

When an electromagnetic wave travels through another field affects its strength. That means. Things like radars that send electromagnetic waves through data lines can read data that travels in those lines. The idea is that the system acts like an X-ray system. It sends a radio wave through the data line and the sensor at the opposite side detects changes in that field and it can read data. 

The laser system that makes laser rays scatter can used to steal data from optical networks. Or the system can create a hologram around the laser ray. If the laser ray oscillates that hologram can steal information from those laser rays. 

If somebody can steal the LLM that is a very bad thing. Developing those things is expensive. But there is always some other possibility. Bad boys can use those stolen computer programs to create the evil twin for the use of China, North Korea, and Russia. In the wrong hands, the LLM can create virus codes and control cyber-attacks. 

Normally the ability to make malicious code is denied from legal or official LLMs. But in illegal copies, those abilities can exist. So, hackers can use those LLM evil twins for cyber attacks and industrial espionage. The LLM can also make cyber attacks on surveillance systems. 

https://scitechdaily.com/ais-achilles-heel-researchers-expose-major-model-security-flaw/